Tuesday, 8 September 2015

Texture Analysis, which has long been used by the
pharmaceutical, food and cosmetic industries, is now increasingly being used to
evaluate properties of medical devices.

Texture analysis refers to properties
such as firmness, adhesiveness, cohesiveness, tackiness, swelling/absorption,
in addition to relaxation behaviour, fatigue and brittleness. For many of
these tests, standard methods lag behind product development.

Regulatory
agencies including the FDA have used the TA.XTplus Texture Analyser to
evaluate medical devices. In addition,
the patent literature increasingly relies on texture analysis to validate
claims.

Read on for more examples of the application of texture analysis to
the future of medical devices...